Posts tagged with "Britain"

February 11th, 2018Britain will cut off aid funding from any organisation that does not comply with a new review into charities work overseas, aid minister Penny Mordaunt said on Sunday, describing reports of sexual exploitation in the sector as "utterly despicable".
Oxfam, one of Britain's biggest charities, on Friday condemned the behaviour of some...

February 10th, 2018A UK national of Greek Cypriot origin, Alexanda Kotey, 34, was arrested by US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria on Friday, along with another man El Shafee Elsheikh.
Kotey and Elsheikh were the last two members of the “Beatles” group, led by now-deceased ‘Jihadi John’, the US State Department said.
According to the Guardian,...

February 9th, 2018A post-Brexit transition is "not a given", the European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned Britain on Friday, saying London had raised "substantial" issues with the adaptation period as proposed by the bloc.
Barnier, speaking to journalists in Brussels after the latest round of negotiations with British envoys, said he...

January 31st, 2018China's relations with Britain will remain unchanged through Brexit, Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday, as British Prime Minister Theresa May kicked off a three-day visit to China, where she aims to sign £9bn worth of deals.
Britain is trying to reinvent itself as a global trading nation after a 2016 referendum decision to leave...

January 26th, 2018US President Donald Trump said he had not intended to cause offence in Britain by sharing anti-Muslim videos originally posted by a leader of a far-right fringe group and that he would apologise if such people were horrible racists.
Trump told ITV's Good Morning Britain show he knew nothing about the group but that he was the...

January 19th, 2018France on Friday politely rejected Boris Johnson's idea of building a giant bridge across the English Channel after Brexit, saying that, while far-fetched ideas were worth considering, there were plenty of major European projects to finish first.
Foreign Secretary Johnson, who led the campaign to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum,...

January 18th, 2018"Be my guest," French President Emmanuel Macron told Britain on Thursday, saying he would welcome any move by Prime Minister Theresa May to stay in the European Union's single market.
But he added a warning - London's prized financial centre could not enjoy the same level of access to the EU under May's current Brexit plan.
At a...

January 17th, 2018France will lend Britain the Bayeux Tapestry, an 11th century treasure that tells the tale of how William the Conqueror came to invade England in 1066, an official at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris said on Wednesday.
The announcement, a day before French President Emmanuel Macron is due to visit Britain for talks with Prime...

January 16th, 2018French President Emmanuel Macron visited a migrant reception centre and quizzed refugees in Calais on Tuesday, taking stock of the pressure on the Channel port ahead of a summit with British Prime Minister Theresa May this week.
Calais and the surrounding Hauts-de-France region are among the poorest areas of France, with unemployment...

January 11th, 2018Britain, France and Germany made a joint plea to Donald Trump on Thursday to uphold a pact stopping Iran getting nuclear weapons, a day before the US president is expected to decide whether to re-impose sanctions in a move likely to sink the deal.
In sharp contrast to Trump's view that the 2015 pact was "the worst deal ever...

January 10th, 2018Facing a tough line from Brussels on what economic ties between Britain and the European Union will look like after Brexit, a pair of senior British ministers made a direct pitch to Germany to cut Britain a good deal.
Due to visit Europe's most powerful nation on Wednesday, Finance Minister Philip Hammond and Brexit Minister David...

January 9th, 2018Thirty-four Greek Cypriots will learn on Friday at the Royal Courts of Justice in the UK if they have achieved an initial victory in their claims against the British government regarding historic torture and abuse during the Eoka struggle between 1955-59.
Justice Kerr of the Queen’s Bench Division presided over a Preliminary Hearing...

January 9th, 2018It was meant to be a fresh start to put a year of gaffes, scandals and an ill-judged election behind Britain's Theresa May, but so far it only seems to have made matters worse.
A much-anticipated reshuffle of her cabinet did little more than demonstrate the prime minister's weakness, with the only high-profile moves derailed when one...

January 8th, 2018British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would announce changes to her ministerial team soon, with media reports saying her foreign, finance, interior and Brexit ministers would keep their jobs in a reshuffle starting on Monday.
After running a poorly received campaign at a national election last year that badly damaged...

December 30th, 2017The family of 22-year-old Juliana Tudos, a young woman adopted by a Cypriot family, who was found stabbed to death in a park in London, asked on Saturday for a stop to the crowdfunding launched to help raise money to bring her remains back to Cyprus.
According to a friend of Juliana’s stepfather, all the family wants is all this to...

December 29th, 2017
A limited number of files on Cyprus dating from 1976 are included in the latest release of Foreign Office archives in London and contain
a letter by then Foreign Secretary James Callaghan relating to the invasion.
The letter dated January 28, 1976 to the head of the Parliament’s Select Committee on Foreign Affairs...

December 22nd, 2017Britain's classic blue passport, for many a key symbol of national sovereignty, will be reintroduced after the country leaves the European Union, the government said on Friday.
Bringing back the old passport, just as Britain is negotiating the terms on which it leaves the EU in March 2019, will please both those who voted to leave...

December 22nd, 2017Iran's justice ministry confirmed on Friday that authorities have opened a new case against British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been sentenced to five years in jail, and denied she might soon be released.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a...

December 22nd, 2017British foreign minister Boris Johnson told his Russian counterpart on Friday there was "abundant evidence" of Moscow meddling in foreign elections, but said anyRussian efforts to interfere in last year's Brexit referendum had fallen flat.
On the first visit to Russia by a British foreign minister in five years, Johnson said he...

December 21st, 2017British Prime Minister Theresa May gave Poland a rare dose of big power support on Thursday by saying that its constitution was its own affair, a sharply different tone to that of the European Union which has scolded Warsaw over judicial reforms.
The EU executive launched an unprecedented action against Poland on Wednesday, calling on...

December 13th, 2017Britain cannot renege on commitments made to ensure Brexit talks with the European Union move on to discussions on the future relationship between the two, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator told the European Parliament on Wednesday.
European Union leaders are expected this week to judge that "sufficient progress" has been made on the...

December 12th, 2017The European Parliament will insist on quickly making the deal reached between the European Union and Britain on divorce terms legally binding, worried London may not honour a gentleman's agreement, the parliament's chief Brexit coordinator said.
The EU and Britain, which will leave the EU in March 2019, agreed last Friday on the...

December 11th, 2017Iran will treat a British-Iranian aid worker as an Iranian citizen and she will serve her sentence as determined by the judiciary, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson discussed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case with Iranian officials after flying to Tehran over the weekend to...

December 11th, 2017Prime Minister Theresa May will hail "a new sense of optimism" in Brexit talks on Monday, telling parliament Britain and the European Union should sign off on a deal at a summit this week "to move forwards together" to discuss future trade ties.
May, weakened after losing her Conservatives' parliamentary majority at a June election,...

November 17th, 2017Britain will honour its commitments to the EU, Prime Minister Theresa May said again on Friday, trying to reassure increasingly frustrated leaders in the bloc who want London to spell out how much it will pay on Brexit.
May will meet leaders on the sidelines of a European Union summit in Gothenburg, Sweden, to try to break deadlock...

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